MC / Vocab Practice #2 - Jack London, What Life Means to Me
Paraphrase
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London has been overworked to the point that it affected his health
Reduced to a beggar that went from door to door
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London has lost his position in the working class
He has fallen into poverty, the area ignored by society
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Due to his poverty, London saw the simplicity of society
Every person had a commodity to sell
Man inherently sold items to satisfy basic needs
Labor only contained the commodity of muscle
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Laborers are unable to restock on their commodity
Muscle disappears over time, leaving the laborer poor
Once the muscle has disappeared, poverty ensues
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The brain was a commodity just like muscle
Brain sellers …show more content…
London molds his argument through his enlightened tone, exposing the simplicity of society which he saw during his time in a state of poverty. That by producing a capitalistic society, man has doomed its laborers to live a life of poverty and never be able to climb the social ladder. …show more content…
He builds his argument upon logos, developing the inherent problems found within a capitalistic society. That it favors positions which are able to restock or replenish their commodity, while laborers are limited to their finite source of muscle. Once they reach “muscle bankrupt,” laborers fall into depths of poverty and are unable to climb the social ladder. Capitalism creates a framework in which there is always a winner and a loser, that competitors fight to sell their commodity in order to provide themselves with “food and shelter.” In addition, London continually ingrained repetition within this excerpt, reminding the reader of the metaphor, “cellar of society.” That in the “edifice of society,” man is exposed to the atrocities of capitalism in an industrialized world. He depicts how his time in poverty has left a mark upon him and serves as the basis of his call for the socialist revolution. London will never be able to forget the feelings of the “cellar of society”, repeating the metaphor so the reader shall never forget the horrendous cesspool that it truly is. That poverty is the bottom of society and doesn't have to necessarily exist since cellars in homes do not provide a foundational support.
Paraphrase
Paragraph 1:
London has been overworked to the point that it affected his health
Reduced to a beggar that went from door to door
Paragraph 2:
London has lost his position in the working class
He has fallen into poverty, the area ignored by society
Paragraph 3:
Due to his poverty, London saw the simplicity of society
Every person had a commodity to sell
Man inherently sold items to satisfy basic needs
Labor only contained the commodity of muscle
Paragraph 4:
Laborers are unable to restock on their commodity
Muscle disappears over time, leaving the laborer poor
Once the muscle has disappeared, poverty ensues
Paragraph 5:
The brain was a commodity just like muscle
Brain sellers …show more content…
London molds his argument through his enlightened tone, exposing the simplicity of society which he saw during his time in a state of poverty. That by producing a capitalistic society, man has doomed its laborers to live a life of poverty and never be able to climb the social ladder. …show more content…
He builds his argument upon logos, developing the inherent problems found within a capitalistic society. That it favors positions which are able to restock or replenish their commodity, while laborers are limited to their finite source of muscle. Once they reach “muscle bankrupt,” laborers fall into depths of poverty and are unable to climb the social ladder. Capitalism creates a framework in which there is always a winner and a loser, that competitors fight to sell their commodity in order to provide themselves with “food and shelter.” In addition, London continually ingrained repetition within this excerpt, reminding the reader of the metaphor, “cellar of society.” That in the “edifice of society,” man is exposed to the atrocities of capitalism in an industrialized world. He depicts how his time in poverty has left a mark upon him and serves as the basis of his call for the socialist revolution. London will never be able to forget the feelings of the “cellar of society”, repeating the metaphor so the reader shall never forget the horrendous cesspool that it truly is. That poverty is the bottom of society and doesn't have to necessarily exist since cellars in homes do not provide a foundational support.